COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Since 2013, Queens Park Arts Centre has been extending its creative ethos into the wider community, with a variety of outreach projects designed to make creative connection with community groups of all ages.

For details of our previous projects, click here, or see below for our current outreach initiative.

CURRENT OUTREACH PROJECT

Exploring Drawing through Printmaking and Mixed-Media
Led by Ellie Kirkup

An arts eduction outreach project in partnership with Primary schools and settings, all about children exploring the complementary activities of drawing and printmaking.

This particular project has now concluded but if you would like to discuss workshops from visiting artists for your school or setting, Primary or Secondary school, please contact the Arts Centre Co-ordinator, on ellie@queensparkarts.com

  • Focused on introducing Primary aged (Years 1 – 6) children to new or first methods of printmaking. Printmaking can often be a slow and painstaking process – these sessions are different to that in using quicker methods of producing a printed image, that will allow children to rapidly see links between drawing and printing.
  • Children will generate exciting, colourful printed images. As many professional printmakers do, they will get to use more than one layer of printing to build up a sophisticated image.
  • Relevant guided drawing exercises in will be incorporated into the session to develop confidence and skills. We may use unexpected media such as chunky graphite, instead of pencils.
  • Printmaking methods taught will vary according to age group, including monotype and relief printmaking.
  • Printmaking is a fantastic way to learn about the processes that can be behind making an artwork, try out some of the challenges associated with this (eg. We make multiple prints because some prints don’t go as we expect!), and enjoy ‘drawing’ in a different medium.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

From a workshop the children will gain…

  • A new printmaking skill
  • Experience doing guided drawing exercises appropriate to their level of development – improving their skills in elements of observational drawing, for example how to begin to show volume, space, or structure
  • Understanding how drawing is creative and not just about trying to be accurate, with class discussion about how they make their pictures interesting: impactful, expressive, or communicative. Depending on the project this might be varying mark making to show feeling, energetic lines depicting movement, or carefully composed scenes that make people ask “what’s the story?”
  • The chance to experiment with some elements and make decisions as part of the process of getting to their final piece
  • An original piece of art to display or take home!